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Radeon HD 7950 and GeForce GTX 560 - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7950 vs GeForce GTX 560

Radeon HD 7950
4907
GeForce GTX 560
2822

Radeon HD 7950

GeForce GTX 560


Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)

GPU code name
Tahiti
GF114

Market segment
Desktop
Desktop

Release date
January 2012
May 2011

Bus support
PCIe 3.0 x16
16x PCI-E 2.0

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
Two 6-pin

SLI options
-
+

Boost clock speed
1250 MHz
-

Compute units
28
-

Core clock speed
-
810 MHz

Floating-point performance
2,867 gflops
1,088.6 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm

Number of transistors
4,313 million
1,950 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
336

Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
150 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature
-
99 °C

Texture fill rate
89.60
45.36

Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
1 GB

Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit

Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
4000 MHz

Memory bandwidth
240 GB/s
128.0 GB/s

Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI

Multi monitor support
-
+

Eyefinity
1
-

Number of Eyefinity displays
6
-

HDMI
+
+

HDCP
-
+

Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536

DisplayPort support
-
-

Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal

DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (11_0)

CUDA
-
+

Mantle
-
-

OpenCL
1.2
1.1

OpenGL
4.6
4.1

Shader Model
5.1
5.1

Vulkan
-
N/A

3D Blu-Ray
-
+

3D Gaming
-
+

AppAcceleration
+
-

CrossFire
1
-

Enduro
-
-

FreeSync
1
-

HD3D
-
-

PowerTune
+
-

TrueAudio
-
-

ZeroCore
+
-